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...Force's estimate of the B-2's price tag, gargantuan as it is, may be far too low. In an exchange with Air Force Chief of Staff Larry Welch, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin warned that Congress would never go along with the Air Force's plan to spend $8 billion annually -- more than twice the current SDI budget -- on the Stealth. At the more likely spending rate of $3 billion a year, said Aspin, the sticker price would soar to more than $1 billion for each plane...
...into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership of the world. "What we're seeing is the emergence of an entirely new concept of national security," says Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "It embraces economics and competitive, commercial relations...
...what amounted to a suicide mission in the hope of winning sympathy and provoking international criticism of the U.S. "Colonel Gaddafi knows that he is irrelevant within the Arab world and can win support only when he is perceived as the victim of superpower oppression," said Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "Two planes is a cheap price to pay so he can hear outpourings of fervent backing...
...military bases for termination within the next six years. The Pentagon figures that shutting them down, while partially closing five more and realigning 54 others, will save $693.6 million a year. In the short run, the closings will result in the elimination of 24,000 civilian jobs. But Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, estimates there ultimately will be a net loss of only 8,000 nonmilitary positions...
...Dukakis campaign has been slow to use its own institutional advantage: Senate Democrats. After the convention, party leaders waited in irritation for calls that never came. Groused a Senator's aide: "It was a 'We know best' attitude." Belatedly, Sam Nunn, Les Aspin, Al Gore and John Glenn were summoned by Dukakis last week...